May 18, 2020

Crowned Beauty (The Corona Virus)


 Oh! Crowned Beauty,
The world is under your enchanting spell,
a spell not ushering us to heaven, but to hell.

A compassionate touch,
speaks so much,
but, now this touch,
is a gush of death.

Many dreams crushed,
many screams hushed,
or
left to die,
on the roadside.

Life is ill,
turning into a silence all still,
a somber silence………
a macabre silence……..

 Oh! Crowned Beauty,
The world is under your enchanting spell,
a spell not ushering us to heaven, but to hell.

17 comments:

Samyuktha Semi Jayaprakash said...

You rhymed the corona story to perfection!

Old Egg said...

What a great poem. Let's hope the Corona epidemic doesn't touch you with the subtle bribe you you have written for it!

Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...

This is quite eerie – which is fitting.

Gillena Cox said...

You have expressed our dilema in a clever and entertaining manner. Luv the rhymes.
Be safe
Thanks for dropping by my sumie Sunday today

Much💖love

Sanaa Rizvi said...

This is such a gorgeously timely write, Vandana!💝 May the corona virus dissipate soon.

Colleen Looseleaf said...

Stranger than fiction how what is good is now bad to do and it looks like a v voodoo pin spell.

Rommy said...

There has been so much heartache left in the wake of this pandemic. I hope there will be better things rebuilt out of the ashes.

Helen said...

Your poem is ~~~ enchanting.

indybev said...


A sobering rhyme indeed.

Joel (@Stranded Tree) said...

Silence. Neither that or the virus is wanted. Thank you for sharing this.

Audrey Howitt aka Divalounger said...

This is how it is I think--that little spiked ball creates so much misery--

Jenna said...

Very well done.

Thotpurge said...

Hell indeed, the way things are going!

Kim M. Russell said...

I like the circularity of this poem, Vandana, like a corona, and I agree with Rosemary about the eeriness of it. I also like the reference to Shakespeare in ‘not ushering us to heaven, but to hell’.

James said...

very true. corona is everythying you described in your poem here. great write!

Nithya Venkat said...

So true, the corona is certainly making life hell, I hope things get better soon.

Namratha said...

Sarcastic title, huh? Keeping us in hell indeed